Current book is Towards the Light: The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights That Made the Modern West by AC Grayling. Relevant but potentially dry-as-digestives topic given an impressive lightness of touch.
Wired piece on “Gamer Regret”, that shameful realisation that you’ve wasted an enormous chunk of your life on killing non-existent zombies. (more…)
Following up on the Steorn “free-energy” demo of a couple of posts ago, the latest is that it’s been cancelled. Endgadget is getting quite a kick out of it. As is Good Morning Silicon Valley. As is pretty much everyone. Not a good day for Steorn. The cameras have been switched off and they’re going to try for another date. The laws of physics remain safe for a few days more.
If you’re going to claim to have invented a perpetual motion machine, it doesn’t do things much good if it stops working. (more…)
